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Sunshine Enemies

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Sunshine Enemies
First edition
AuthorK. C. Constantine
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThe Mysterious Press of Warner Books
Publication date
1990
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages167
ISBN0-89296-288-7
OCLC20319437
Preceded byJoey's Case 
Followed byBottom Liner Blues 

Sunshine Enemies is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine set in 1980s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rust Belt town in Western Pennsylvania, modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh.

Mario Balzic is the protagonist, an atypical detective for the genre, a Serbo-Italian American cop, middle-aged, unpretentious, a family man who asks questions and uses more sense than force.

The novel opens with a Lutheran minister complaining about a pornography ship that recently opened at the edge of town. Next a brutal knife murder happens in the shop's parking lot. All of this prompts Balzic the police chief to work the case, digging up reluctant witnesses and asking questions.[1]

It is the ninth book in the 17-volume Mario Balzic Detective Mystery Series.[2]

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